The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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48 subjects in this part of Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations.

Talents

Talents: And sure th' Eternal Master found His single talent well employ'd.

Talk

Talk: For I no sooner in my heart divin'd, My heart, which by a secret harmony Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet.

Tea

Tea: If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.

Tears

Tears: And friends, dear friends,-when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And round my bier ye come to weep, Let One, most…

Temperance

Temperance: Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some divine despair.

Temper

Temper: But certain winds will make men's temper bad. น.

Temptation

Temptation: O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made…

Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day: Could'st thou boast, O child of weakness! O'er the sons of wrong and strife, Were their strong temptations planted In thy…

Thankfulness

Thankfulness: Some hae meat and canna eat, And some would eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit.

Thieving

Thieving: No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. C.

Thought

Thought: He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all.

Thunder

Thunder: Far along, From peak to peak the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder.

Tides

Tides: The thunder, Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast…

Time

Time: Backward, turn backward, O Time in your flight! Make me a child again, just for to-night!

Toasts

Toasts: My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea: But, before I go, Tom Moore, Here's a double health to thee!

To-Day

To-Day: Ho! stand to your glasses steady! 'Tis all we have left to prize A cup to the dead already, - Hurrah for the next that dies.

To-Morrow

To-Morrow: Dreaming of a to-morrow, which to-morrow Will be as distant then as 'tis to-day.

Tongues

Tongues: The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.

Travelling

Travelling: The travelled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

Treason

Treason: I spake of most disastr'us chances, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence And portance…

Trees And Plants-Acacia

Trees And Plants-Acacia: Bk. VI. The lawn, Which, after sweeping broadly round the house, Went trickling through the shrubberies in a…

Trees And Plants-Ash

Trees And Plants-Ash: Ash. Fraxinus. The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush; The maple swamps glow…

Trees And Plants-Chestnut

Trees And Plants-Chestnut: Birch. Betula. Rippling through thy branches goes the sunshine, Among thy leaves that palpitate forever, And in…

Trees And Plants-Linden

Trees And Plants-Linden: Linden. Tilia. The linden in the fervors of July Hums with a louder concert.

Trees And Plants-Oak

Trees And Plants-Oak: Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering…

Trees And Plants-Palm

Trees And Plants-Palm: Olive. Olea Europxa. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her…

Trees And Plants-Pine

Trees And Plants-Pine: Monterey. Poplar. Populus Fastigiata. Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and…

Trees And Plants-Yew

Trees And Plants-Yew: The tulip-tree, high up, Opened, in airs of June, her multitude Of golden chalices to humming birds And silken-winged…

Trials

Trials: Pray, pray, thou who also weepest, - And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep-and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count…

Trust

Trust: There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore.

Trifles

Trifles: Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, And eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

Truth

Truth: Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

Twilight

Twilight: The sunbeams dropped Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche, Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dim, As if the very Day…

Tyranny

Tyranny: The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team Begins his golden progress in the east.

Thirst

Thirst: Est in aquâ dulci non invidiosa voluptas. There is no small pleasure in pure water.

Traveling

Traveling: Utendum est ætate; cito pede labitur ætas. We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.

Trouble

Trouble: Hoc scito nimio celerius Venire quod molestum est, quam id quod cupide petas. Know this, that troubles come swifter than the…

Tardiness

Tardiness: Spät kommt ihr-doch ihr kommt! You come late, yet you come! (Better late than never.)

Taste

Taste: Racine passera comme le café. Racine will pass away as the taste for coffee. Attributed to MME. DE SÉVIGNÉ.

Theology

Theology: Die Theologie ist die Anthropologie. Theology is Anthropology.

Trade

Trade: Une nation boutiquière. A nation [England] of shopkeepers.

Traveli Ing

Traveli Ing: Zählt der Pilger Meilen, Wenn er zum fernen Gnadenbilde wallt? Does the pilgrim count the miles When he travels to some…

Thal

Thal: NOEL, THOMAS, poet... ENGLAND, 19th Century 63 484

Tait, John

Tait, John: 530 TALEB, ALI BEN ABU, caliph, ARABIA, about 602-661 262 TALFOURD, SIR THOMAS NOON, dramatist, poet, and jurist. ENGLAND…

Terence, Publius Terentius Afer

Terence, Publius Terentius Afer: Roman comic poet, CARTHAGE, about B.C. 185-159 24 373 673 675 676 680 681 683 684 691 692 695 698 701 705…

Tertullian, Quintus Septimius Flo

Tertullian, Quintus Septimius Flo: RENS, ecclesiastic, CARTHAGE, about 150-230

Thackeray, William Makepeace

Thackeray, William Makepeace: novelist, satirist, and critic, ENGLAND, 1811-1863 NAMES, NATIVITY, ETC., OF QUOTED AUTHORS. THALES OF…

Tome Burguillos, See Vega

Tome Burguillos, See Vega: TOTTEL, RICHARD, publisher, 501 ENGLAND, died 1594 TOURNEUR, CYRIL, tragic poet, lived 1600- 326 TOWNLEY, REV…

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